Three Northern Cyprus men arrested for gay sex

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I think it is time fo cease all dialogue between North Cyprus and the EU. North Cyprus is not a civilised nation if this type of monstrous witch-hunt is still permitted. And trade talks etc should cease.

Cypriot re-unification talks must be put on hold until homosexuality is decriiminalizsed in the North.

Even Turkey (which controls North Cyprus) is far more advanced than the apparently backward, bigotted dump of North Cyprus.

We cannot allow primitive backward countries like North Cyprus into the EU.

Turkey in no way controls Northern Cyprus legislatively than Britain controls Bermuda, Jersey or Anguilla. There is responsibility for foreign and military issues but legislation and day to day governance is independent in each of these places as much as it is in Northern Cyprus from Turkey.

I agree homosexuality needs to be decriminalized in the north and the men who have been detained in relation to this matter should be released forthwith.

I am not sure that reunification talks should be stopped, but this could be an opportunity to allow the Northern Cypriots to prove that they are keen to move on the issue of human rights, and the those from southern Cyprus should challenge the north to do so.

“Unlike Cyprus, the Northern Republic still has British colonial laws against homosexuality. In July, newspaper reports said two men were arrested for having sex in a hotel.”

WTF?

This part of Cyprus is a sovereign state with no legal ties to the UK since 1975, and its strict and inhuman laws against homosexuality are in place because of its predominant religion, which is Islam.

It has had 35 years to amend any old colonial laws, and has chosen not to do so.

I hate the lack of journalistic skill when reporting this incident. The “Cypriot” men NOT “Northern Cypriot men” were arrested. This is politically motivated. 1 of the 3 is an elderly Greek Cypriot politician from the south. Turkey controls the police in the north of Cyprus which is strange as Turkey itself decriminalised homosexuality years ago. Turkey is using the Turkish Cypriot interpretation of old British colonial laws (motivated by homophobia) to screw a Greek Cypriot politician. Turkish Cypriot gay men have inadvertantly become the bait. Homophobia and nationalism is a heady mix. Turkish Cypriots now have to contend with the thought that police without a warrant can break into their homes and arrest them for an “unnatural act”. A solution to the political problem is urgent as common decency and EU Human Rights laws are hard to enforce in an unrecognised state.

This is nearly always the case ! Such stupid legislation is used against people for political motivations . My own “father” was caught this way ! might add that a slightly liberal view of the Coran and the haddith which are the real law for any muslim would conclude that where there is the POSSIBILTY that the actors in such lewd and obscene acts have been forced into such behaviour by perversion or castration then the Karim Coran and the haddith are quite clear that the actors are “BLAMELESS” ! So there really is no excuse for such blanket one size fits all homophobic procedures in an Islamic state .

If that well known Hero and generally wonderful person “Peter thatcel” or some one like him is reading this then perhaps he or she could use this line in his or her efforts to get the Islamists to listen to him ! There is really only one natural party of government in Islamic countries and thats the Islamists. So it is to them that we must address our arguements . . . So we should be comming from an appreciative view of the Coran and the haddith . . .just banging on abiout secularism to a Muslim just reaks of Idolatry !

Well that’s destroyed the lives of several young men whose actions did not not one scintilla of harm to the state, nor even to themselves. Their lives are now over.

The 14yo is a different matter as he is underage, as should of course be the case with any instance of abuse, but all the more compelling reason for a humane treatment. There should be no law preventing adults of either sex from being with whomever they damn well like.

Until this law is repealed, Cyprus should be denied membership of the EU, although that’s no threat nowadays.

i lived in south cyprus in 2008 for a year and went to secret gay bars in limmasol what surprised me is the guys i met there were still living in fear from police, the public and of there families and this is still going on

I spent 3 weeks in Northern Cyprus in 2007. I met a lot of gay guys. There was no special bar, but on the beach and in the hammams you could pick and choose as you wanted. I had the feeling that I never seen so many gay people in one place before. Even one of the policemen I met in the street invited me home to “have some fun” as he explained it. I could not believe that homosexuality was illegal.

2,000 years of the Christian and Catholic religions have made gays criminals. It is time to make the Christians and Catholics the criminals who have been the ones who have been behind the murders and killings of gays. Christians and Catholics make haters who hate gays and bully kids to kill them. Make these Christians and Catholics pay for their crimes against gays for hundreds of years.

Northern Cyprus is not recogonized by any country in the world except Turkey. Therefore the European Court of Human Rights have no jurisdiction there. Maybe we should offer to recognize Northern Cyprus on condition that they decriminalize homosexuality.

Pink News quotes the Cyprus Mail but made the decision to describe three arrests: Sarris, a 17 year old and a 30-something. The Cyprus Mail describes 5 arrests: the other two being a 14 year old and a 16 year old.

the moral leader of these perverts that use philosophical concepts of “naturalness” to perform heavy sexual acts involving body modifications,swallowing body fluids form other sex,etc,was a sick pervert who married his own sister and had children with her.
we should mock them by organizing a protest where sister and brother get married,that’s their family institution.

Many comments are fuelled by typically hasty Pink News reporting: at least one of the ‘men’ was well under the age of consent (which has been equalized in Northern Cyprus for homosexuals and heterosexuals at 17) … so this is as much a potential case of paedophilia as anything. However, as it also involves a former (Southern) Cypriot government minister who opposes the Turkish occupation of the North, it’s almost certainly politically motivated and not a real instance of the hounding of private practitioners of gay sex.